Memory Quiz (12/04)

Memory of a specific event that happened to you. An example would be remembering your birthday party when you were 5.

• Semantic Memory

• Procedural Memory

• Episodic Memory

Memory of facts and concepts. An example would be remembering that Columbus is the capital of Ohio.

• Semantic Memory

• Procedural Memory

• Episodic Memory

Translation of information into a form in which it can be used. This is the first stage of memory.

• Storage

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Maintenance

Organizing info into smaller units that are easy to recall

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Chunking

• Semantic

The human capacity for storing long-term memories is

• roughly equal to seven units of information
• enhanced through hypnosis
• essentially unlimited
• typically much greater in young children than in adults

The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory

• long-term

• short-term

• implicit

• sensory

Learning something by putting it to music is an example of:

• Semantic encoding

• Acoustic encoding

• Tactile encoding

• Visual encoding

The three types of long term memory are:

• Episodic, visual, procedural
• Visual, semantic, procedural
• Recognition, acoustic, episodic
• Episodic, semantic, procedural

Which type of long-term memory stores how to do things? An example would be riding a bicycle or writing your name.

• Semantic

• Episodic

• Procedural

• Episodic buffer

Which term describes how we find and use information stored in our memory?

• Encoding

• Processing

• Storage

• Retrieval

Answer explanation

We retrieve information that has been securely stored in our memory